Music Alone Shall Live Lesson Plan

Content and Achievement Standards

Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Class Goals and Objectives
Continue to develop students skills through various singing
activities
Enable student to aurally identify and perform songs that include
the dominant triad/7th chords.
Materials
Exit ticket
Dry erase board & marker
Procedure
Review
o Solfege warm-up (in C)
Tonic triad
o Mark staff with Do-Mi-So x3
Dominant triad
o Solfege warm-up (in C)
Tonic to dominant
o Mark staff with So-Ti-Re
o Talk about what dominant does (while students right on staves)
What did we sing?
Prepares for tonic (play I-IV-V7 progression DONT RESOLVE)
Tension wants to resolve
Listen for Dominant chord
o Sing melody of Music Alone Shall Live
Where did you hear the dominant? (HINT: usually before
tonic)
Teach 1st line
Sing loop class in with starting pitch
Teach 2nd and 3rd line
Sing loop class in with starting pitch
Class sings entire song
o Teach counter melody
What is a counter-melody?
Teach 1st line
Sing loop class in with starting pitch
Teach 2nd line
 Sing loop class in with starting pitch
Teach 3rd line
Sing loop class in with starting pitch
Class sings entire counter-melody
Sing Music Alone Shall Live with melody and Counter-melody
o Split class in half
o Both halves sing melody and counter-melody in turn
Assessment of Goals and Objectives
Assessment of singing skills will be informal and achieved by monitoring
students during singing activities. Knowledge of dominant triad will be
assessed using and Exit Ticket strategy, having students notate a
dominant triad and stating what he triad does in their own words.

Follow up Lessons
Future lesson will focus on IV chords as prolongations of I and IV chords as
Pre-dominant chords.